--- title: Lessons learned: how I’d rebuild a social web app like... description: React Native for Web (RNW) is not a hit on performance directly, but it's still a bit too much of a shift and frankly the library is falling behind. For the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/lessons-learned-how-i-d-rebuild-a-social-web-app-like-twitter-today-paul-armstrong-xo-n-u3au twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Lessons learned: how I’d rebuild a social web app like Twitter today • Paul Armstrong | daily.dev og:description: React Native for Web (RNW) is not a hit on performance directly, but it's still a bit too much of a shift and frankly the library is falling behind. 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For the most part now, all RNW is getting the team now is default styling, automatic LTR/RTL text direction swapping and some performance help under the hood. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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